<p>The <strong><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/video/west-bengal-police-special-task-force-arrests-pakistan-trained-militant-near-india-bangladesh-border-1077186" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Special Task Force (STF) </a></strong>of Assam Police on Tuesday recovered 1.128 kg of heroin worth Rs 9 crore in the Amingaon area of Kamrup district, an officer said.</p>
<p>The STF team also arrested four individuals, news agency ANI reported.</p>
<p>Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of Assam Police, Pranab Jyoti Goswami, stated that they had received intelligence-based information indicating that the notorious Touthing narcotics family from Churachandpur (Manipur) would be transporting drugs to Hajo and Goreswar-based peddlers in a vehicle from <strong><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/mumbai-man-raises-disability-inequity-awareness-in-mizoram-23464269" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Mizoram </a></strong>to Kamrup.</p>
<p>"Based on this input, the vehicle was intercepted by an STF team led by Additional SP Kalyan Pathak at Amingaon on Tuesday morning, where two occupants, Onkhogin Touthing [the driver] and Thangkhaelien [a passenger], were found," the CPRO said.</p>
<p>The vehicle was searched, and 94 soap boxes or packets of heroin, concealed in secret chambers, were recovered, weighing 1.128 kg without their covers, he added.</p>
<p>"The drugs were seized, and their market value is approximately Rs 9 crore," the CPRO said.</p>
<p>Subsequently, the recipients, Nurul Hussain of Dampur, Hajo, and Bitul Ali of Goreswar, were arrested, ANI reported.</p>
<p>Necessary legal action has been initiated.</p>
<h2>MDMA laboratory busted in Madhya Pradesh; one arrested</h2>
<p>The Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN) has dismantled an illegal laboratory producing MDMA, a psychotropic drug, in a remote area of Mandsaur district in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/agripada-jewellery-heist-two-suspects-arrested-in-up-and-mp-for-rs-191-crore-robbery-23457305" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Madhya Pradesh</strong></a>, an officer reported on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The agency has arrested one individual in connection with the raid, news agency PTI reported.</p>
<p>Acting on a tip-off, officers from the CBN's state unit raided an orange orchard near Kharkheda village in the Garoth tehsil and discovered the clandestine laboratory operating there, the agency stated in a release.</p>
<p>The team recovered 80.96 kg and 7.5 litres of chemicals, including acetone, toluene, hydrochloric acid, sodium sulphate, sodium carbonate, sulphuric acid, bromine water, ethanol, and others, PTI reported.</p>
<p>Additionally, equipment and machinery such as a UV controller, vacuum oven, weighing scales, test tubes, funnels, and other items were seized from the premises.</p>
<p>These chemicals and apparatus were sufficient to produce more than 50 kg of illicit MDMA powder each month, the release stated.</p>
<p>Following the raid, one individual was arrested under the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/two-arrested-at-agartala-railway-station-in-connection-with-ndps-case-23462735" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act</strong></a>, PTI reported.</p>
<p><strong>(With ANI and PTI inputs)</strong>&nbsp;</p>
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